I spent the weekend in a different world: where the scent of suntan lotion fills the air, and nice, sanitized reggae music fills the air. Yes, I was in the massive (and I mean huge) complex that is the Gran Bahia Principe on Jamaica’s fair north coast. But actually, good to be back home… Mountain View … More Back from the north coast: November 3, 2013
Everything is pop-down again, it seems. (To my non-Jamaican readers: “pop-down” is quite a broad term meaning “exhausted, ruined,” or to coin another Jamaican phrase “mash-up.” It can also mean something is a flop or a failure). The pop-downnest thing that I can think of right now is the economy. OK, we passed the first IMF … More Pop-Down Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Two reports from the Contractor General (CG) came floating in on the news yesterday afternoon. Some of us were thinking that Mr. Dirk Harrison had been quiet for a long time; but as an online friend said, if this is what happens when he speaks, we don’t mind long silences (translating from the patois)! OCG … More A Brace of Reports: Wednesday, September 18, 2013
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